MON SEPT 01 2025-theGBJournal|Peter Obi, Labour Party Presidential Candidate in the 2023 general election has described the recently conducted Rivers State Local Government election as ”rascality taken too far”
He said the election, which has been greeted by huge backlash, represents ”a double tragedy for Nigeria’s democracy when a Sole Administrator – himself illegally appointed – dares to conduct an election that should empower the people.
This is not democracy; it is the outright desecration of its very foundation.”
According to Obi, in a statement released Sunday evening, ”such actions are unconstitutional, legally untenable, and morally indefensible.”
They send a dangerous message that the rule of law can be discarded at the whim of those in power. But the truth remains unshaken: illegality can never give birth to legitimacy. Any structure erected on a foundation of lawlessness is a danger to both the state and the people.
Nigeria cannot afford to continue on this perilous path. We cannot pretend to practise democracy while silencing the will of the people – especially at the grassroots, where democracy matters most.
If we truly seek progress, we must uphold the sanctity of the ballot, safeguard the people’s right to choose, and insist that leadership at every level flows from their mandate – not from contraptions that mock democracy. Only then will governance have meaning, and only then can the sacred bond of trust between leaders and the people be restored.”
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